Is there a special rule or trick with the chest body template? changing "var overwrite:Boolean" from true to false doesnt work.

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Yeah, that's one of the special rules/tricks I was talking about. Even if you have overwrite set to false, the breast and chest layer will be removed IF you put anything in those layers. The only way to have them not vanish is to set the Layers that hold those movie clips as Guides (See picture). You then need to put those layers on the Top Template. Or create a false skin layer in your mod in the Body Template.

Really, you're best bet is to AVOID using the Body Template when doing costumes unless you need to do 'Forearm', 'Hand' and 'Left Shoulder', and even then that's the ONLY thing I'd put on the Body Template.

If your doing custom skin tones, well, use the Body Template all you like. :D

oh. well whats the best overall template for vanilla mods? isnt there only 1? the one that synonymous set up?

anyways, what i did was: duplicate the body template, then make the chest, left breast & right breast - into guides, then delete the the other layers, except for the settings layer. yada yada - boolean= false - drag the new "top template" (with the 3 guide layers) to Main. boom! works! i can see the chest now, but my drawing doesnt show.

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oh. well whats the best overall template for vanilla mods? isnt there only 1? the one that synonymous set up?

anyways, what i did was: duplicate the body template, then make the chest, left breast & right breast - into guides, then delete the the other layers, except for the settings layer. yada yada - boolean= false - drag the new "top template" (with the 3 guide layers) to Main. boom! works! i can see the chest now, but my drawing doesnt show.

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There are a few different Templates you can use. Synon tends to use the Body Template for most things

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Nuh-uh
Real modders only use the collar template

Shade said:

Forearms/Hands/Left Shoulder go onto the Body Template, since no other Template has them.
Pants and Footwear (that's required to layer in a specific way) go onto the Bottom's Template.
Tops go on the Top Template (sometimes also 'cut' to go onto the Bottoms Template when we require mods to go under her right leg, not over it which is how the Top Template behaves.).
Footwear that's standalone, goes on the Footwear Template.

Honestly, what you should do is go through the templates and make every reference layer a guide layer as well. True, that means it'll seemingly disappear from the parent object, but you'll still be able to see the origin points for them, and double clicking those will still let you edit them.

Another thing I recommend doing is deselecting the "include hidden layers" option in the Publish Settings popup.

well, i got it to work in Top Template, and sort of working in the Bottom Template. It was like Shade said, the Body Template was completely unusable for what i was trying to do on the chest area.

with that said, I should also say that Shade just might stand corrected regarding the Guides. i had to set the Right Breast and the Left Breast as Guides only. setting the Chest as a Guide did not show positive results - it was only when i set the Chest layer to Normal and the two breast layers as Guides that i was able to see the chest drawing.

Well, I'd rather be over cautious than be wrong and miss the problem. ;) Besides, what’s wrong with teaching new Vanilla Modders some good Modding Technique? :P In a lot of ways, Vanilla Modding can be harder than Loader Modding. :-\